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Judith Edelman-Green

Organisation: Rimon Community
Website: www.rimon.org.il

Judith Edelman-Green created a nation-wide programme in Israel offering bnei-mitzvah to 1000's of children with special needs. She is recipient of the Liebhaber Prize for Pluralism and is founding the Rimon Community for adults with special needs. Residents will perform good deeds and it will also have a beit midrash for those who cannot read.

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Ilan Emanuel

Organisation: Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto

Ilan is a rabbi at the Temple Sinai Congregation in Toronto. He grew up in the UK where he practiced as a solicitor before studying at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati to be a rabbi. He has previously served Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Yehoshua Engelman

Website: yehoshuaengelman.co.il

Yehoshua Engelman is co-founder, rabbi and director of Yakar Tel-Aviv, and has taught at HaKotel and Othniel Hesder Yeshivot and Hebrew University BM. Yehoshua composes and performs his compositions to Jewish-Israeli texts. He is also a practising psychotherapist and his book of torah essays, informed by his psychoanalytic experience, will be published next year.

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Marc Michael Epstein

Organisation: Vassar College
Website: faculty.vassar.edu/maepstein

Marc Michael Epstein is Professor of Religion at Vassar College. He writes on topics in visual and material culture produced by, for, and about Jews. His book, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (Yale, 2011) was selected by the TLS as one of the best books of 2011.

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Yaffa Epstein

Organisation: Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
Website: www.pardes.org.il

Yaffa Epstein teaches Talmud and Jewish liturgy at the Pardes Institute. She holds a law degree, and has studied at the Kollel at Pardes, and Matan's Talmud Institute. She has taught at Drisha, Kayam Farm, and the Dorot Fellowship. Yaffa is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Talmud at Hebrew University.

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